Dustless ash receiver



Sept. 3, I935.

H. M CONAUGHY 2,013,498 DUSTLESS ASH RECEIVER Filed Oct. 10, 1934 19 n 7 D P A ,Zkg

JU g L V J UUw i O O O 0- o o o o O 9 o .11 o 1d 0 o o 7 H VE o o o I 5: 5 I 0 ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 3, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

The invention relates to a, dustless ash receiver and more especially to a dust collector lid or cover for receptacles, such as ash cans or the like.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a lid or cover of this character, wherein the same is adapted to collect dust from a can or receptacle used as an ash receiver, so as to render the said can or receptacle dustless, particularly to eliminate flying ash dust from basements and rooms of an edifice or house during the process of shoveling coal or coke ashes from a furnace into an ash can, the lid or cover being of novel construction and having associated therewith a suction fan or the like and a vacuum cleaner type dust bag, so that flying particles of dirt or dust can be readily and conveniently collected within said bag to rid the can or receptacle from dust or dirt.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a lid or cover of this character, wherein the same has provided therein an opening which is protected by a curtain of flexible kind and through which opening the ashes as removed from a, furnace can be introduced into an ash can or receptacle without liability of the flying of ashes or dust during the shoveling period and particularly when depositing the ashes within the can or receptacle.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a lid or cover of this character, which is extremely simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and eflicient in its purpose, susceptible of fitting upon ash cans or receptacles for operation as a dust collector, automatic in its working, strong, durable, and inexpensive to manufacture. A

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which discloses the preferred embodiment of the invention, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation of an ash can or receptacle, showing the lid or cover constructed in accordance with the invention applied thereto and partly in section.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the lid or cover removed from the can or receptacle.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates generally an ash can or receptacle which is of standard kind, and at its open upper end is fitted the lid or cover constituting the present invention and hereinafter fully described.

This lidor cover comprises a crown 5 and a rim 6, respectively, these preferably being made in separate parts united through the medium of rivets or other fasteners 'l.' The crown 5 has formed at the front thereof a substantially rectangular-shaped opening 8, it having matched therewith a mouth piece 9, from the top portion of which is suspended a flexible curtain including the sections l0 and I I, respectively, which function to normally close the opening 8, and through this mouth piece is adapted to be shoveled spent coal or coke or coal or coke ashes as taken from a furnace for the deposit of the ashes through the crown 5 into the can or receptacle A, as should be clearly apparent, when the lid or cover is fitted upon the upper open end of the latter.

Diametrically opposite the opening 8 and made secure to the crown 5 for communication therewith is a suction elbow or pipe fitting l2 which carries suspended therefrom a separable vacuum cleaner type dust bag l3 for the collection of flying dust and dirt therein as removed from the crown 5, so as to render the can or receptacle A dustless. Suitably journaled in the elbow or pipe fitting I2 is a fan propeller shaft M of an electric motor l5 and this shaft carries a propeller or fan l6 which, when operating, sucks dust and dirt from the interior of the crown 5 of the lid or cover through the elbow or pipe fitting l2 into the bag l3 for deposit therein. The motor is made fast to a supporting extension l'l formed on the elbow or fitting l2 and is of the electric type having electrical connection with house current through the use of a socket piece (not shown).

The crown 5 of the lid or cover carries a handhold I8 which permits the convenient handling of the lid or cover for its placing upon the can or receptacle A. It is, of course, understood that the lid or cover may be varied in size according to the size of the can or receptacle with which the same is to be used.

It should be obvious that when the motor I5 is operating, flying dust or dirt as within the can or receptacle A and the crown 5 of the lid or cover will be collected and deposited within the bag l3, so that such can or receptacle will berendered dustless during the shoveling period of ashes as removed from a furnace and deposited which are also removably engaged in a mouth 5 rim 20 of the dust bag l3 so that in this manner the said bag is separably suspended from thepipe fitting I! of the device.'

What is claimed is:

A lid or cover of the character described hav 10 ing a crown provided with an opening therein, 9.

flexible closure for said openin a suction elbow on and communicating with said crown, a dust collector bag removably fitted with said elbow, a suction fan operating within the elbow for the drawing of dust from within the crown into the bag, a support on said elbow, an electric motor carried by. said support and operating said suction fan, and means for removably attaching the bag to the elbow.

HAROLD L. McCONAUGHY. 

